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mental age  

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  • Mental age is a central concept in the study of intelligence measurement. Jerome Sattler defined mental age as “the degree of general mental ability possessed by the average child of a chronological age corresponding to the MA score” (p. [Source: Encyclopedia of Educational Psychology; Mental Age]

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